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Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. Hot Country Songs ranks songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay not only from country stations but from stations of all formats, a methodology introduced in 2012. [2]
January 4 – Florida Georgia Line duo members Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley announce plans to release solo music, but will not be separating. [1]January 20 – Following the release of his album Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen becomes the first artist to have six songs in the top ten of the Hot Country Songs charts at the same time. [2]
The Weeknd (pictured) has four songs on the Year-End list, with "Save Your Tears" (with Ariana Grande) and "Blinding Lights" ranking at #2 and #3; in addition, "Blinding Lights", previously the biggest performing song of 2020, was crowned by Billboard as the most successful Hot 100 single of all time, dethroning Chubby Checker's "The Twist". [3]
Their single "Butter" is the longest running number-one song of 2021, spending ten weeks atop the chart. (Adele's "Easy On Me" also spent ten weeks total at number one, but only seven of them occurred in 2021.) Rodrigo's "Drivers License" was 2021's longest running number-one single by a female artist, with eight consecutive weeks atop.
The best country songs of all time are hard to choose. But we've pulled together a list of the top 105 hits of all time, from country love songs by Garth Brooks to modern music by Carrie Underwood.
Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" spent 25 weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and also topped the all-genre Hot 100, the first song by a solo male country singer to do so since 1981. Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay are charts that rank the top-performing country songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine.
As with most other Billboard charts, the Canada Country chart features a rule for when a song enters recurrent rotation. A song is declared recurrent if it has been on the chart longer than 30 weeks and is lower than number 20 in rank. [3] These are the Canadian number-one country singles of 2021, per the BDS Canada Country Airplay chart.
Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. Chart positions are based on multi-metric consumption, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.